How to Use nearsighted in a Sentence

nearsighted

adjective
  • I am a little nearsighted and need to wear glasses to drive.
  • Not too bad for a nearsighted young Lieutenant who had never fired a weapon before.
    — Debra Ciamacca, Time, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The nearsighted landing radar fix was even more straightforward.
    — Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Spend too much time scrutinizing text or images right in front of you, the logic goes, and your eyes become nearsighted.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Babies are born nearsighted, able to see only about 10 to 12 inches away.
    — Gurpreet Singh, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Babies are born nearsighted, able to see only about 10 to 12 inches away.
    — Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • An older man, bald and flushed, pulled off his headset, blinking the vulnerable blink of the nearsighted.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Acquaintances would remember him as a shy, nearsighted youth who liked soccer but preferred to spend his free time at the local mosque.
    — Author: Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Oct. 2019
  • By 2050, estimates suggest that as much as a quarter of the world may be nearsighted.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Childhood is an important time to think about myopia because myopic children tend to become more nearsighted over time.
    — Olivia Killeen, The Conversation, 21 May 2020
  • Parents of children who are nearsighted will soon have another option for helping deal with the condition.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2019
  • His guide located a buffalo—a feat the nearsighted Roosevelt could never have managed on his own.
    — H.w. Brands, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The rise has continued so sharply that some projections suggest that by 2050, about half the world could be nearsighted.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Others struggle to see objects located too far away, rendering us nearsighted.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Oxpeckers riding on rhinos feast on ticks, and their calls warn the nearsighted herbivores about approaching humans.
    — Susanne Bard, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2020
  • With presbyopia, the patient is neither nearsighted nor farsighted and requires no glasses for distance vision.
    — Benjamin Botsford, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
  • With presbyopia, the patient is neither nearsighted nor farsighted and requires no glasses for distance vision.
    — Benjamin Botsford, CNN, 10 June 2024
  • Lasik surgeons use an ultraviolet laser to reduce the curvature of the cornea for people who are nearsighted, and to accent it for people who are farsighted.
    — Author: Roni Caryn Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2018
  • Using screens more significantly increases the risk that students will become nearsighted.
    — CNN Money, 1 June 2026
  • But the consolation, for a nearsighted person like me, is seeing individual gestures and mirroring so well.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2021
  • If a child has two nearsighted parents, the hereditary genetic effects increase the child's chances of needing glasses to about 60 percent, if time spent outdoors is low.
    — CNN, 3 Oct. 2017
  • What if Timmy had damaged his eyesight to more accurately play the nearsighted Marty Mauser?
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • However, in nearsighted or farsighted people, the light is bent incorrectly, resulting in blurred vision.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Pity the fictional characters who are projections of a misogynistic or nearsighted writer’s longing.
    — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Large stakes in Uber and Slack have begun to look more nearsighted than visionary as the companies’ share prices have fallen in the months following their public offerings.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • When a child first becomes nearsighted is when their vision is changing the fastest and their eye is growing most rapidly, Berntsen said, and that would be the optimal moment to slow progression if possible.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • At seven miles up and over ten miles from the landing site (or about 11 kilometers up and 16 kilometers away), the suddenly nearsighted radar was unable to lock onto anything.
    — Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
  • What security does this provide beyond flummoxing nearsighted hackers?
    — Answer Fella, Esquire, 6 Aug. 2010
  • Throughout The Great, the black comedy’s satirical tone captures how theatrical and nearsighted politics can become amid a crisis.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 21 May 2020
  • The display's focus can also be manually adjusted to accommodate nearsighted users.
    — Will Greenwald, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2024

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